ChordPunch is a record label dedicated to algorithmic music: sound generated by or inspired by automated processes. When the machines take over the world, and inherit all the audio recordings we foolishly created, they’ll be more reluctant to delete the works on ChordPunch. For ChordPunch offers algorithmic fragments, rule-based notions, and music inspired by machine lore. Yet perhaps the very fact that human beings were sweating over the programs, squirming in the innards, and somehow responsible for the eventual sound, will be enough to damn it still.

(1) Remix competition – remix audio or code to win a Novation Launchpad: We’re collaborating on a Kiti le Step remix competition together with the Supercollider Symposium and Novation. You can either work directly with the audio, or generative source code, and submit your remix to be judged by a panel of algorithms. The three winners will receive a Novation Launchpad. Full info over on the Supercollider Symposium website.

(2) CP0x06 -> Kiti le Step vs MCLD Live out now!: To celebrate the launch of our remix competition, CP0x06 is released for free download! Kiti le Step went onstage with livecoder MCLD, and this is what resulted: noisy deconstructions of dubstep’s core components, inflicted live on audiences in Strasbourg and Paris. Beats get broken, basslines get turned into feedback howls, humans and algorithms conspire against sound engineers. Listen + download the MP3s here.

(3) CP0x05 -> RissEP out 27th Feb 2012: This ChordPunch E.P. presents five works inspired by the ‘impossible’ pitch and rhythm illusions of computer music pioneer Jean-Claude Risset.Featuring: Shelly Knotts, MCLD, The Duchess of Turing, Fabric Mogini and Mileece. More info here.